Most of us only find our own voices after we've sounded like a lot of other people.

I learned to write by writing. I tended to do anything as long as it felt like an adventure, and to stop when it felt like work, which meant that life did not feel like work.

I thought about moving south, about continuing to run, continuing to pretend I was alive. But it was, I knew now, much too late for that. There are doors, after all, between the living and the dead, and they swing in both directions.

I will be brave, thought Coraline. No, I am brave.

I think radio plays are my favourite medium, as they make the listener work and create and contribute in a way that TV and film can never do, and they have an immediacy that written prose often lacks.

Because,' she said, 'when you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave.

Media. I think I have heard of her. Isn't she the one who killed her children?